Akamai Technologies released, through the company's Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert), a new cybersecurity threat advisory that alerts enterprises to a high-risk threat of powerf…
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Mitigations for Spike DDoS toolkit-powered attacks
In yet another example of if-it's-too-good-to-be-true-it-probably-isn't, hundreds of thousands of users signing up for a cheap and supposedly legitimate proxy service have ended up downloading malware…
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Proxy service users download malware, unknowingly join botnet
As you have probably already heard, the Grum botnet – formerly the third largest in the world – has been effectively shut down last week after several security researchers managed to coordinate the ta…
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Bot herders try to resurrect Grum, fail
Following an investigation that lasted 10 months, Russian police authorities have managed to arrest the 22-year-old operator of one of the largest botnets known to date. According to a press rele…
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Massive botnet shut down after botmaster's arrest
A trojanized Android application for configuring phone settings has been enslaving the devices of the customers of China's two largest mobile carriers into a botnet numbering hundreds of thousands of …
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Active mobile botnet enslaves thousands of Android devices
Kelihos – the botnet whose operation was disrupted last September by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab by shutting down its C&C servers and making its bots contact a sinkhole instead – is back and working. …
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Kelihos botnet rises up again